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Originally Posted by Humabout
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Fuel-wise, remember the beauty of the ramscoop. It really saves on fuel. Only thing that ever struck me was how to have enough fuel to slow down after using the scoop to speed up.)
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Ramscoops are okay if you want to do a lot of handwaving and ignoring of inconvenient data. The interstellar hydrogen around our solar system (for several hundred LY) is too thin for ramscooping as just one probem.
Slowing down isn't a problem though. Detailed sims of ramscoops make them look like much better brakes than accelerators. Sort of a magsail mode.
If you don't want to wrestle with any sort of probable TL9 drive you can call your drive a ramscoop but you might as well use reactionless drive stats.